Shoe-carton label.



L. M. STINGILY.

SHOE CARTON LABEL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 13, 1908. 933,004. Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

UNITED srnrnsrn r IlESLLlH. STINGILY, 0F EEOGKHAVEN, EISSISSEPPE, ASSIGNOK t3 GEE-HALF EGGBATH, 0F BEOOKHAVJEN, HISSISSWI.

TT @FFICE.

T6 HENRY B.

SEQE-GAR'EON LABEL.

To all whom it moqgcmzcem:

Be it known that l, Lssnrr. M. Sermon. a citizen of the United States, residing at lh'oolrhavcn, in the county of Liixcoln and State of llrlississippi, have invented a new and useful Shoe-(:1i'toii Label, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoe carton labels. I

The object. of the invention is to furnish the retail merchant with a. record of shoe sales Without the use of sales slips, and to construct the article in such a manner as to enable the manufacturer or jobber to attach the duplex label as easily and almost as economi ally as the single label now in use. l urtherlnore, to provide a label of this charhcter that shall be simple of construction, that will help the manufacturer or jobber using them to retain the business of his customers, since he gives them this service, which his competitor possibly does not, and which when placed on the inside of the carton, will not mar or change its outside appearance.

' With the above and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the inven tion is better understood, the same consists in a shoe carton label embodying two printed fields separated by two parallel disposed weakened lines, the printed matter on the two fields being identical, and being disposed on the outer side of one of the fields andon the inner side and inverted on the other field, the latter field being arranged within the carton.

The invention consists further in the various novel features of a shoe carton label, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a view is perspective, partly in section showing a portion of a shoe hos equipped with the label of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the label detached. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the end of the box with the label in position thereon.

The box B is of the usual or any prefrred construction, and therefore needs no detailed description.

Specification 91' Letters Patent. Application filed July 13,

Patented Aug. 31, 1909. 1898. Serial No. 443,227.

. scriptive niatter relative to the shoe in the carton, such as its trade name, the name ofi the manufacturer, style, the size and width, and the cost and selling prices. The printing on the field 1. 3. will be on its outer side, While the rinting on the field 2 will be on its inner side, and

to be made upon the field 2 and it is drawn out of the carton and turned over against the end of the same, the printing will be in proper order. I

The object of havingthe printing on the inner side of the field 2 is to protect it from injury as might result by the frequent removal and replacement, of the contained shoes.

will be seen by reference to Fig. 3, the \viakened lines are disposed on the interior of the end of the carton, and by this means the hanger of the field 2 becoming detached is reduced to a minimum, and further when the field 2 is removed, the appearance of tho field l is not changed.

The advantages of the double cartonlabel of this invention are that if placed on the carton by the nianufacturer the retailer has a complete record of each shoe sold from his stock simply by detaching the perforated label. At any given time he may refer to his his and buy duplicates of his best selling shoes. Should he desire, he can remove the labels from his file at the end of one weeks business and deduct from his stock list. By reference to this he can at any time see just the amount he has invested in shoes, the hind, quantities and sizes of each. i

It will be understood, of course, that the spaces following the words stock style etc., will be filled out. This may be done by the manufacturer, with the exception of the space following the word price said space being filled by the retailer. Should he have a one price system, he may subtract the total cost of goods sold from so ling price, and the fllillerence in the two will give him his gross the character of stock and, 65

in the same order, so that when an entry is 70 l or letter on each duplicate la profit. If .he has not a one price system, he can make note on the detac ed label at the time of sale the amount received for this articnlar pair of shoes, the cost having 11 marked on the receipt of the shoe, and by this means he would be enabled to have the selling and oost price of every pair of shoes;

By having each salesman laoe his initial 1, the retailer may ascertain just the amount and class of goods each salesman has sold, as well as the profit he has made on the same.

The use of this duplex label will obviate the necessity of cash sales slips in shoe departments thereby etfecting'a great saving of time.

The retailer can by numbering the permanent and detachable label with the same figures see justwhat'has been paid for a shoe where he does not observe a one price s stem, in case of return I claim: The combination with a. receptacle, of. a label embodying two separable printed Fields, the priiited matter on the two fields being identical, and being disposed on the outer side of one of the fields, which field is secured to an, outer end of the rece tacle, and on the inner side of the other fie d the latter field being loosel Y disposed a ainst the interior of said end 0 the receptac e.

- In testimony that I claim the foregoing a f v as my own, 1 have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

, LESLIE M. STINGILY. W itnesses B. E. MAnsH, W. A. SHURTLEFF. 

